shakespeare-quote

Inspired by the Unix commandline executable fortune, shakespeare-quote is a lightweight program to print a randomly selected quote from one of Shakespeare's works when invoked. The user can specify which specific work to select a quote from, or a pre-defined group of works, such as only tragedies or histories. All sonnets are included as well, and may be selected in place of a quotation.

I originally wrote this program because I thought it would be a nice improvement to my terminal if I saw a quip from the bard every time I opened it up. Maybe you will too. Give it a try!

To install, download it from the GitHub repository and run make install. To uninstall, run make uninstall.

To print a random quote, just run shakespeare-quote in the terminal. Additionally, you can provide options to the programto influence the output or give additional information about the runtime. Available options:

• shakespeare-quote [-g | --group] filename : Specify a particular group of works to pick a quote from.
• shakespeare-quote [-w | --work] filename : Specify a particular work to pick a quote from. (overrides --group if both are provided)
• shakespeare-quote [-d | --debug] : Run the program in debug mode.
• shakespeare-quote [-v | --version] : Print the version of the program prior to printing a quote.

The following are the available groups to use with the --group flag:

• all : Pick from all works.
• comedy : Pick from all comedies.
• english-history : Pick from the English history plays, specifically.
• history : Pick from all histories.
• play : Pick from all plays, and exclude sonnets and poems.
• problem-play : Pick from one of the three problem plays -- All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida.
• roman-history : Pick from one of the three Roman history plays -- Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Julius Caesar.
• romance : Pick from all romances.
• sonnet : Pick a random sonnet.
• tragedy : Pick from all tragedies.